Damon Wilder

Damon Wilder (1959-) was a member of the West Hollywood City Council from 2001 to 2002, succeeding Dan Blot and preceding Beckett Troy.

Biography
Damon Wilder was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1959, and he worked in the consulting industry for several years. His business eventually took him to Los Angeles, and he decided to buy a home in suburban West Hollywood. In 2001, riding on the success of Republican President George W. Bush and the Afghanistan War, Wilder decided to run for City Council in his hometown. He mobilized the suburban white conservatives of his city, including several Christian and Jewish supporters of the Christian right and the War on Terror, to vote for his election. However, Wilder lost re-election a year later, as the post-9/11 nationalist hysteria had calmed sufficiently for a Democrat to be elected back to office.